College and Research Libraries


84 I College & Research Libraries • January 1979 

of Using Bibliotherapy that they "will lead 
the alert, prepared librarian-bibliotherapist 
to undertake the research needed to move 
bibliotherapy from its status as an activity to 
its desired status of an art and a controlled 
science."-Sister Alma Marie Walls, 
I.H.M., Immaculata College, Immaculata, 
Pennsylvania. 

Bramley, Gerald. Outreach: Library Ser-
vices for the Institutionalized, the El-
derly, and the PhysicaUy Handicapped. 
London: Clive Bingley; Hamden, Conn.: 
Linnet Books, 1978. 232p. $12.50. LC 
78-7281. ISBN 0-85157-254-5 Bingley; 
0-208-01663-5 Linnet. 
Gerald Bramley's Outreach covers both 

the British and U.S. aspects of library ser-
vice to the institutionalized, the elderly, 
and the handicapped. Two chapters each 
are devoted to hospital libraries and prison 
libraries; one each to library services for the 
elderly, the disabled, the blind, the par-
tially sighted, the mentally retarded, and 
the deaf. Generally, the background and 
services for each group are described first 
for Great Britain and then for the U.S. with 
footnote references at the end of each chap-
ter. Curiously, however, the chapter on li-
brary services for the disabled is almost en-
tirely devoted to the British scene with only 
one of the twenty citations referring to a 
U.S. publication. 

It is evident throughout the work that 
both countries have faced similar problems 
in attempting to provide outreach services. 
With a chronic lack of personnel and funds, 
both have relied heavily on volunteers to 
staff programs, and few programs to any of 
the groups have been notably successful. 

The chapters on the blind and partially 
sighted are probably the most comprehen-
sive, giving detailed descriptions of the 
Braille and Moon systems, talking and 
large-print books, cassettes, and services, 
such as those offered by RNIB (Royal Na-
tional Institute for the Blind) and the Na-
tional Library of Talking Books, both of 
which are British. DBPH (the Division for 
the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Li-
brary of Congress, now the National Library 
Service for the Blind and Physically Hand-
icapped) and the American Printing House 
for the Blind are also described. The chap-

ter on services to the deaf is the least com-
prehensive, a result, probably, of the dearth 
of literature in this area. 

The book is intended primarily for stu-
dents of librarianship and for those begin-
ning their professional careers. While there 
are some minor inaccuracies, e.g., reference 
to Rhea Rubin as "he" (p.86); "Christina" 
for Christa (p.ll6); and reference to the in-
troduction of the Library Services and Con-
struction "Bill" in 1966-LSCA was passed 
in 1965 (p.169), as a comparative study of 
British and U.S. approaches to outreach 
services, it does fulfill its purpose and pro-
vides a good overall view. 

In addition to the referen_ces found at the 
end of each chapter, there is a select read-
ing list and index in the appendix. Concern-
ing any detailed account of U.S. involve-
ment in these types of outreach services, 
however, one must go considerably beyond 
what is found in this work. The Rehabilita-
tion Act of 1973, a crucial piece of legisla-
tion underlying any service to the disabled, 
for example, is not mentioned. It should be 
useful to those in public libraries but less so 
for those in academic and special librar-
ies. -Lucille Whalen, State University of 
New York at Albany. 

One Book/Five Ways: The Publishing Pro-
cedures of Five University Presses. 
Foreword by Joyce Kachergis. Introduc-
tion by Chandler Grannis. Afterword by 
William Kaufmann. Los Altos, Calif.: 
William Kaufmann, Inc., 1978. 337p. 
$9.75 paperback; $18.75 hardcover. LC 
78-9505. ISBN 0-913232-53-X; 0-91323-
54-8 paperback. 
This book describes how five presses 

would publish the same book, No Time for 
House Plants by "Purvis Mulch." The same 
180-page manuscript with illustrations was 
presented to the university presses of 
Chicago, North Carolina, Texas, Toronto, 
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy. Each press agreed to treat this manu-
script as if it were actually going to publish 
it and to prepare complete logs of the work 
for presentation in One Book/Five Ways. 

The presentations run from thirty-five to 
sixty-six pages, but all conform to the same 
outline covering the four major aspects of 
publishing: acquisitions and administration,